Cheap TatOneEyedMonster remindes us about the crap you can buy in pound shops: "Batteries that lasted about an hour and then died. A screwdriver with a loose handle so I couldn't turn the damn screw, and a tape measure which wasn't at all accurate."
Similarly, my neighbour bought a lawnmower from Argos that was so cheap the wheels didn't go round, it sort of skidded over the grass whilst gently back-combing it.
What's the cheapest, most useless crap you've bought?
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chthonic, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 7:26)
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Argh! EastEndersI'm a pretty easy-going person and I don't make many demands of my better half. But a few years back, she got hooked on EastEnders and it did my head in. It would be on just as we'd sit down to eat, so I was stuck watching it unless I wanted to be on my own in the kitchen to eat. In the end I put my foot down and told her that we weren't to have it on in the house any more. She was pissed off to start with, but we've not watched it for years now and she's admitted now that she doesn't miss it.
Quite apart from the second-rate acting and the repetitive storylines, what bothers me is that it's just a group of nasty people being nasty to each other. All the time, over and over again. It's depressing, and pernicious -- is this really the message we want to drill into peoples' brains night after night? It's OK to lie, cheat, steal and so on because that's what everyone does?
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reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Tue 8 Jan 2008, 10:37,
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